Impressive Judo Grading Results

Last Friday morning Solefield's year 3 and 4 judoka completed their last judo grading of this academic year, competing for new ranking and the stripes/coloured belts to match.  For the first time, the two year groups were combined in order to provide more varied opposition for all the boys and more fighting opportunities.

The boys fought well, with some surprising themselves and proving once again that application and focus will produce the right results.

The grading consisted of a series of judo contests: 

• Part 1 consisted of ne-waza or ground fights in which the boys had to demonstrate their hold-down techniques; 
• Part 2 was tachi-waza (standing) as well as ne-waza (ground) fighting, again allowing the boys to apply their techniques and to try to achieve superiority over their opponents; 
• Part 3 was single contests, where each boy faced off against a series of opponents in officially refereed 2 minute fights, where they were expected to use proper judo throwing & holding techniques to achieve a win if possible. 

This resulted in a series of high-intensity contests with some excellent results.